Abe Kwok

Sep 20, 2024 | azcentral.com | Abe Kwok

A school board president and longtime educator vying for reelection dies weeks before voting begins. How does the community move forward now? What happens when a school board president in the middle of a reelection bid dies, just weeks before early voting begins? In short, the election will go on and the results will determine next steps.

Sep 20, 2024 | azcentral.com | Abe Kwok

Seven of the nine congressional races in Arizona don’t figure to be competitive. That lends credence to the criticism that the once-every-10-years redrawing of district boundaries heavily favors one party or the other at the expense of some constituencies. No other race relitigates the case of redistricting fairness more than the Congressional District 2 contest between incumbent Eli Crane, a hard-right Republican, and Jonathan Nez, a Democrat.

Sep 18, 2024 | azcentral.com | Abe Kwok

As if Arizona needed another election-related snafu. Officials on Tuesday said they found a glitch in the voter registration system that could disqualify nearly 100,000 Arizonans from voting in state and local races. This, just weeks before early ballots arrive in mailboxes. The emphasis is glitch. Driver's license glitch involved thousands of votersThe state Motor Vehicle Division began requiring proof of citizenship for driver’s licenses in October 1996.

Sep 6, 2024 | azcentral.com | Abe Kwok

Cryptocurrency advocates threw around some serious cash in Arizona’s primary election. While their success at influencing outcomes is debatable, their commitment to being political players is not. Crypto corporations have pumped an estimated $120 million into federal election races this year, primarily through nonpartisan super political action committees (PACs) devoted to electing pro-crypto candidates and defeating crypto skeptics.

Sep 3, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Abe Kwok

Ballot initiative uses 'The Zone' to play politics, not fix a real homeless needThe city of Phoenix took a deserved pounding over the homeless encampment known as “The Zone” for letting it fester out of control. City officials’ inaction on open drug use, fights, public urination and defecation and other acts of public nuisance frustrated area residents and businesses for more than a year until their anger blew up with a lawsuit.